The Bus Driver: Britain’s Cocaine King (2025)

Season 1

Bus-driver-turned-Cocaine-King. Jesus Ruiz Henao flooded '90s Britain with cocaine, building a billion-pound empire. It took police five years to convict him, in what would become the largest surveillance operation of its kind.

Released Aug. 10, 2025 Episode 50 min None+

Genres: Documentary

Keywords: tmdb.cocaine, tmdb.bus-driver, tmdb.drug-kingpin

Watch Providers: Discovery +, Discovery+ Amazon Channel, HBO Max Amazon Channel, HBO Max

Production Companies: Honey Bee

Network: discovery+

Country: United Kingdom
Languages: English

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S1E1 - Episode 1

Jesus Ruiz Henao escapes cartel violence in Colombia. He becomes a London bus driver, but spotting a gap in the market, builds the UK's biggest cocaine trafficking empire. But the police are closing in.

Aug. 10, 2025, midnight

S1E2 - Episode 2

London bus driver Jesus Ruiz Henao becomes the UK's biggest cocaine dealer, making millions weekly. But police launch a multi-million-pound operation to bring him and his organisation down. Henao thinks he's untouchable, but pride comes before a fall.

Aug. 10, 2025, midnight

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50 min/ep

100 min

Aug. 10, 2025

Aug. 10, 2025, midnight

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